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Chuck Norris Botnet Karate-chops Routers Hard (PC World)
PC World reports
on a botnet based on poorly-secured Linux routers. "Right now
Chuck Norris-infected machines can be used to attack other systems on the
Internet, in what are known as distributed denial of service attacks. The
botnet can launch a password-guessing dictionary attack on another
computer, and it can also change the DNS (Domain Name System) settings in
the router. With this attack, victims on the router's network who think
they are connecting to Facebook or Google end up redirected to a malicious
Web page that then tries to install a virus on their computers."
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Chuck Norris Botnet Karate-chops Routers Hard (PC World) Posted Feb 23, 2010 21:13 UTC (Tue) by jrigg (subscriber, #30848) [Link]
A reader's comment on that article:
"Linux can be attacked to. It just doesn't happen very often because it only has .01% market share."
Chuck Norris Botnet Karate-chops Routers Hard (PC World) Posted Feb 23, 2010 22:21 UTC (Tue) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]
Ignorance is high and a publication like PCWorld isn't going to draw the most technically knowledgeable individuals. Combined you end up with comments like the one you quoted where the poster is completely ignorant of Linux market share (6% overall I believe for real computers and it has a virtual monopoly on things like home routers).
Most people are deluded to believe that they are completely normal so if you aren't exactly like them and using exactly the same tools that you are somehow a highly unusual freak. This type of thinking is very common in humans and a big aspect of psychology. Such beliefs are heavily exaggerated in some mental diseases like schizophrenia where they believe they are the most important person in the world and anyone that doesn't believe like they do is dangerous or insignificant.
Chuck Norris Botnet Karate-chops Routers Hard (PC World) Posted Feb 24, 2010 9:44 UTC (Wed) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link] (6% overall I believe for real computers and it has a virtual monopoly on things like home routers) Chuck Norris does not share markets.
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